Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4570
מַעְגָּל
magalmah-gawl'
track
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maʻgâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4570is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4570
a track (literally or figuratively); also a rampart (as circular)
The King James renders it: going, path, trench, way(-side).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
magal is rendered "track". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 17:20So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
1 Samuel 17:20הַמַּעְגָּ֔לָה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in the camp2
- in tracks of2
- track of2
- tracks her2
- a track1
- and tracks your1
- course of1
- in tracks their1
- in tracks your1
- on tracks their1
- the camp towards1
- tracks his1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּמַּעְגָּ֔ל2
- בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתֶ֑יךָ1
- בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָ֑ם1
- בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָֽם׃1
- בְמַעְגְּלֵי־1
- בְּמַעְגְּלֵי־1
- הַמַּעְגָּ֔לָה1
- וּ֝מַעְגָּלֶ֗יךָ1
- מַעְגַּ֣ל1
- מַעְגַּ֥ל1
- מַעְגָּ֑ל1
- מַעְגַּל־1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcfpc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmpc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp2ms
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfpc/Sp2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)1HTd/Ncmsa/Sd
1 Samuel
three uses
So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
- הַמַּעְגָּ֔לָהhama'galahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the camp towards
Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.
- בַּמַּעְגָּ֔לbama'galpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the camp
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
- בַּמַּעְגָּ֔לbama'galpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the camp
Psalms
four uses
My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
- בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתֶ֑יךָbema'geloteikhapreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: in tracks your
He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
- בְמַעְגְּלֵי־vema'gelei-preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tracks of
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
- וּ֝מַעְגָּלֶ֗יךָuma'galeikhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and tracks your
The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
- מַעְגָּ֑לma'galnoun · masculine singulartagged: a track
Proverbs
seven uses
Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
- מַעְגַּל־ma'gal-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: course of
whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
- בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָֽם׃bema'gelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: in tracks their
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
- מַעְגְּלֹתֶֽיהָ׃ma'geloteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: tracks her
I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
- בְּמַעְגְּלֵי־bema'gelei-preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tracks of
Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
- מַעְגַּ֣לma'galnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: track of
She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
- מַ֝עְגְּלֹתֶ֗יהָma'geloteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: tracks her
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- מַעְגְּלֹתָ֥יוma'gelotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: tracks his
Isaiah
two uses
The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
- מַעְגַּ֥לma'galnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: track of
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
- בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָ֑םbema'gelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: on tracks their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.